Vol 47 No 3 | UGANDA Losers can win too 3rd February 2006 President Museveni is surprised to face the strongest challenge yet to his 20-year rule The cheering was almost as loud as the jets of two MiG-21 fighters that flew low over Kampala on 26 January. The flypast crowned a military display to...
Vol 47 No 3 | UGANDA Making the President nervous 3rd February 2006 Only President Yoweri Museveni's die-hard supporters expect him to win many votes in northern Uganda, where he is blamed for failing to end the 18-year insurgency by the...
Vol 46 No 25 | UGANDA Mr and Mrs 16th December 2005 Not content with being the Mother of the Nation and the leading pro-abstinence and anti-condom campaigner, Uganda's First Lady Janet Museveni is penetrating the political arena. Mama Janet,...
Vol 46 No 23 | UGANDA Tears, fears and a martyr 18th November 2005 The arrest of the strongest opposition candidate for the presidency left everyone weeping Diplomats coughed and wiped their eyes as they left the Chief Magistrate's Court. An ill wind had blown tear-gas past the Court, where the strongest opposition leader, Colonel...
Vol 46 No 22 | UGANDA Homecomings 4th November 2005 A corpse and an ambitious politician return to upset President Museveni's re-election plans President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's two big political rivals have returned from exile and sparked major new challenges to the President and the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM). First...
Vol 46 No 22 | UGANDA Museveni's military 4th November 2005 Too many observers think of the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) as an ill-disciplined bunch of ghost soldiers flying about in junk helicopters. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni hopes...
Vol 46 No 21 | SUDANUGANDA Khartoum's game 21st October 2005 Despite energetic denials, Khartoum continues to help Kony and the LRA In the early hours of 11 October, an Antonov flew over Western Equatoria, Southern Sudan, an unmistakable sound for civilians used to government bombing. Twice last month an...
Vol 46 No 20 | UGANDA Congo connection 7th October 2005 Where next for the Lord 's Resistance Army? Some 400 LRA fighters under deputy commander 'Brigadier' Vincent Otti crossed into north-east Congo-Kinshasa last month from Southern Sudan. But...
Vol 46 No 19 | UGANDA Moving the Movement 23rd September 2005 The threat of a boycott may be the opposition's most powerful weapon in next year's elections With the present rules and political climate opposition parties, even in an alliance, stand no chance of ousting President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his National Resistance Movement in...
Vol 46 No 18 | UGANDA Clamped 9th September 2005 Hardline measures against dissident soldiers and journalists point to government nervousness before March's elections . In power since 1986, President Yoweri Museveni will contest again, after parliament lifted...